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Since 2009 there have been PRAXLABS as network of research and excellence in the wider area of Siegen-Wittgenstein and Dortmund, Germany. They are composed of a network of regional research, industry and application partners, and of different settings – for instance domestic environments and public places where everyday life is encountered, virtual communities or working environments. Researchers, industrial companies, public institutions and users/consumers can participate and collaborate in these settings. We consider our research and development as a close symbiosis between the defined field of application and the different groups of stakeholders. The participatory inclusion of users adopts a special focus in this context. Appropriate to the demand of the research project, we involve interested users who can participate actively in the different development and design stages. Right now, over 100 users of our steadily growing panel are participating in current research projects.

The cultivation of these contacts allows us to embed the growing technology into recognizable methods, which can be empirically evaluated and improved. Through this cooperation, we are able to offer our users the opportunity to participate actively in the design process with the intention of developing new solutions. Arising concepts of this method as well as early prototypes can be investigated in long-term evaluations in the field. In addition, they also can be discussed, tested and developed in a lab setting at the university. The iterative research and development process is widened by the early exploration of the appropriation and usage behavior in the actual application field. The advantage of this step is that the integration of ICT solutions into everyday life will uncover context-specific problems or unintended usage faster. The information gained can be inserted immediately into improving users’ acceptance as well as improving usability and the further development of ICT solutions.

Claudia Müller, Lin Wan(2018)Information and Communication Technology Design in a Complex Moral Universe: Ethnography-Based Development of a GPS Monitoring System for Persons Who Wander, Socio-Informatics - A Practice-based Perspective on the Design and Use of IT Artefacts, Volker Wulf, Volkmar Pipek, David Randall, Markus Rohde, Kjeld Schmidt, Gunnar Stevens (Hrsg.), S. 363-390, Oxford University Press, pdf

2017

Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho, Saqib Saeed, Christian Reuter, Volker Wulf(2017)The Role of Technological Infrastructure in Nomadic Practices of a Social Activist Community, International Reports on Socio-Informatics (IRSI)14(3)

Christian Reuter, Julian Schröter(2015)Microblogging during the European Floods 2013: What Twitter May Contribute in German Emergencies, International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM)7(1), S. 22-41, pdf